Compendium of
Cost Data for Environmental Remediation Technologies
– The compendium is published Environmental Technology Cost-Savings Analysis
Project (ETCAP), through the Los Alamos National Laboratory of the U.S. DOE. The
compendium provides a representative sample of cost information for both conventional
and innovative remediation technologies for the treatment of hazardous, radioactive,
and mixed wastes. The compendium describes approximately 250 commercial or pilot-scale
remedial projects. Cost data for the projects were gathered from a variety of sources
(including Roundtable remediation case studies) and summarized to provide actual cost
summaries, site characteristics, and comments about details of remedial projects. The
cost information provided varies in level of detail.

Extensible Markup Language (XML) Standards for
Parametric Cost Modeling – XML is a superset of HyperText Markup Language (HTML) that works on any
platform, on any network, across compliant applications. XML can serve as a mediator and provide common ground for bridging systems, increase consistency and compatibility, leverage existing systems (which lessens development and maintenance costs), and allow multiple systems to leverage existing models and extend them to meet unique needs.
For example, XML can act as a bridge between a web-based application like the Navy's Cost-To-Complete system for
estimating environmental budget requirements and an object-oriented, Internet-designed application like the Navy's Remediation Technology Evaluation Tool, a technology short list organized by media and contaminant. The XML bridge allows technologies to be compared against each other and ranked by cost or short-term effectiveness.

Hazardous, Toxic,
and Radiological Waste (HTRW) Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
– The HTRW WBS is a product of the Interagency Cost Estimating Group (ICEG),
which consists of representatives from the USACE, Navy, Air Force, EPA, and DOE. The
WBS was developed in three sections; studies and design (System 32), remedial actions
(System 33), and operations and maintenance (System 34), and has been used as a common
cost structure by federal agencies to assist in collecting historical costs. The ICEG
mission continues with maintaining this structure with upgrades including new
technologies and cost and performance data requirements.

Historical Cost Analysis System (HCAS) – In 2004 the United
States Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) Hazardous Toxic and Radioactive Waste Center of
Expertise (HTRW/CX), the United States Army Environmental Center (USAEC), and the Air
Force Civil Engineering Support Agency (AFCESA) jointly began collecting environmental
project and cost data to assess parametric models. To collect the historical
environmental project and cost data, a process and protocol for data collection,
analysis, and management was developed and information from 211 projects was brought
together in a report. The report is available as a resource on data collection and
parametric model assessment. Additional information can be obtained by contacting Rick
Osborn at 402-697-2426.

Tri Services Automated Cost
Engineering Systems (TRACES) – TRACES is the Tri-Services umbrella linking all automated cost
engineering systems and their associated data bases. This web site, operated by the USACE
Huntsville Engineering and Support Center, provides access to Micro Computer Assisted
Cost Engineering System (MCASES) software and links to cost estimating and budgeting
tools, such as Historical Analysis Generator (HAG), Life Cycle Cost, PC-Cost,
Parametric Building Module, and Scheduling Interface, for authorized users supporting
the DoD Military program and the Corps of Engineers Civil Works program.

USACE Area Cost Factors
– Area cost factors (ACF) are used to adjust average historical facility costs
to a specific project location, and to increase accuracy in comparing and projecting
costs at a various locations. Once every two years, USACE surveys the prices of 34
items in a "market basket" in 188 cities. The results of the survey and consideration
of several matrix factors are used in developing the ACF.

U.S. DOE/EM Applied Cost
Engineering (ACE) Team – The ACE Team was established to promote continuous cost improvements through
dissemination of cost engineering tools, methods, techniques, best practices, and
lessons learned across the Environmental Restoration (ER) complex.